Glenn Adamson
Curator, writer and historian, working across the fields of design, craft and contemporary art.

Bio

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Bio

Image credit: John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Image credit: John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A.

Dr. Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA 2020; and Craft: An American History (2021). His next book, A Century of Tomorrows, will be published by Bloomsbury in December 2024.

Dr. Adamson is Artistic Director for Design Doha, a biennial in Qatar; curator at large for the Vitra Design Museum; and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation.

His current curatorial projects include Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within for the Isamu Noguchi Museum and Nike: Form Follows Motion for the Vitra Design Museum.